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In December 1941, Pilot Officer John G. Magee Jr, a 19-year-old American serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England, was killed when his Spitfire collided with another aircraft inside a cloud. Just a few short months before, he composed his immortal sonnet 'High Flight, a copy of which he fortunately mailed to his parents in the U.S. I remember watching this video on our local tv station at sign-off, before they began broadcasting 24/7. To this day, these words still gives me goose-bumps.
Tags:highflightjohnmageetvsignoffvideoAdded: 27th May 2008Views: 1668Rating:Posted By:Naomi

Great Lakes Mail Boat. Has it's own Zip Code.Been delivering mail to the freighters for many years. Pulls right up next to them they lower a bucket all set. When leaving the freighter they both give a report. Simply awesome, Going under the Amabasador Bridge linking Detroit to Windsor Canada. They deliver day and night throughout the shipping season. The Soo Locks opening up tomorrow for shipping. The USCG Mackinaw Ice Breaker has been working to clear the waterways. Tags:ThesoundoftheHornsbellowingGreatStuffLotsoftraditionhere!Added: 24th March 2008Views: 1045Rating:Posted By:Marty6697

Red Barn was a hugely popular hamburger restaurant in my hometown in the early 1970s. (I used to get a free burger coupon in the mail around my birthday!) Red Barn was a chain of burger joints that had locations in 19 states and Canada. The facades of their restaurants were designed to look like barns. This is a 1971 commercial advertising the Barnbuster burger. The main character, Hamburger Hungry, looked too much like Ernie from Sesame Street and had to be redesigned not long after this commercial aired to avoid copyright troubles. Tags:RedBarncommercialAdded: 5th March 2008Views: 1754Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

In a comment below I will post the text of an e-mail I believe is a new twist on the Nigerian money scam. The clue? They are asking for personal info to pay you. Tags:NewScamNigerianMoneyScamAdded: 10th March 2008Views: 766Rating:Posted By:Steve

Hazel Court, an English actress who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in popular horror movies of the 1950s and '60s, has died. She was 82. Court died early Tuesday of a heart attack at her home near Lake Tahoe, daughter Sally Walsh said Wednesday. While she had a substantial acting career both in England and on American TV, Court was perhaps best known for her work in such films as 1963's "The Raven." She co-starred with Price, Karloff and Peter Lorre in director Roger Corman's take on the classic Edgar Allan Poe poem.
Corman directed her in five movies. Like other "scream queens" of the era, Court often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths for her roles. "The Premature Burial,""The Masque of the Red Death,""The Curse of Frankenstein" and "Devil Girl from Mars" helped propel her to cult status and brought her fan mail even in her later years. 'She'd probably get over 100 pieces of fan mail a month and she would reply to every single one,' her daughter said.
Court had finished an autobiography, "Hazel Court - Horror Queen," which will be published in Britain. Tags:hazelcourthorrorscreamqueenhammerfilmsrogercormanboriskarloffvincentpricechristopherleepetercushingAdded: 17th April 2008Views: 1347Rating:Posted By:Naomi

Dear Brigitte was a 1965 family comedy movie starring James Stewart and Billy Mumy. Stewart plays slightly absent-minded poet/poetry professor Robert Leaf, a man who has no love for anything scientific. His eight-year-old son Erasmus (Mumy) is the opposite of his father--a math prodigy with little talent for anything artistic. Erasmus, apparently more worldly than the average eight-year-old, is obsessed with French movie star Brigitte Bardot. He spends every cent he can acquiring airmail stamps so he can write fan letters to her. (At one point in the film, two college students enlist Erasmus's expertise in math to win at the race track. They pay him for his services in postage stamps!) This is the climactic scene where Erasmus gets to meet Bardot in France. Tags:DearBrigitteBrigitteBardotBillyMumyJamesStewartAdded: 9th January 2014Views: 1237Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

Johnny Cash sings 'I Saw The Light' in this 1974 episode of Columbo titled 'Swan Song.' Cash plays a popular gospel singer, Tommy Brown, who is being blackmailed out his his musical earnings by his wife. (The missus caught him doing the horizontal hokey-pokey with one of his teenage backup singers.) Brown solves his problem by getting rid of his wife and the girl in a plane crash that he arranged. Tags:JohnnyCashColumboAdded: 14th June 2008Views: 1822Rating:Posted By:Lava1964

this came to me via an email from Naomi . . via an email from Roseann . . and now it is making its way around to my other buddies on the internet who love it just as much as i do . . i think it is too priceless not to share . . and i figured out how to make it something that would fit into YRT's parameters for posting:
Whitney Houson's song, "I Will Always Love You" from the movie, THE BODYGUARD (1992) . . . thank you ladies!! GREAT COMBINED EFFORT!! Tags:ChristianJohnRendallAceBergWhitneyHoustonIWillAlwaysLoveYouTheBodyguard1992Added: 17th July 2008Views: 7682Rating:Posted By:Teresa

Before there were cell phones and super highways, drive-up or drive through, SUVs, DVDs, or MP-3s, before there was politically correct, and children as "friends;" before broad band, e-mail, and chat rooms; mini-malls, mega-stores; downsizing, upgrading, or out-sourcing; fast food or fast lane; walk-in's or take-out's; long before the next ten miles didn't seem to be a photocopy of the last ten miles, there was
The Real America
Photos
The Library of Congress
Documenting America
Music
the moment that could not last
Mark Isham
the old house
J.A.C. Redford
our town
Aaron Copeland
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso Tags:1940sAmericaNostalgiaSmalltownruralAdded: 25th September 2008Views: 1876Rating:Posted By:dalecaruso